ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the notion of realism and in particular its applicability to the visual and narrative strategies employed in eight of Michael Winterbottom’s films. Realism is a term that ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This artistic research dissertation employs the principles and practices of contact
improvisation in a literary performative to describe and demonstrate this somatic form’s
potential as a complex system ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since John Grierson first coined the term “documentary film” in the 1920s, there has
been a debate about the objectivity or subjectivity of the filmmaker. Some theoreticians
believe that a documentary ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the past drama education was an uncommon occurrence in South African schools, limited
to the elective subject Speech and Drama at secondary level, which was only offered in a few
schools in some of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, an ontology of contemporary cinema is developed using the position assumed
by postmodern thinkers (notably Jean Baudrillard) and contemporary filmmakers. Using
Baudrillard's perspective ...

This study aims to describe the puppet, mask and actor as icons or mediums in performance in
Africa. The types of performances that will be discussed are religious performances, as well as
liminal and hybrid performances. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Late twentieth century theatre studies has been characterised by an expansion of the
notion of theatre to encompass an enormous variety of performance-based activities.
A range of pioneering academics ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates and examines the dynamics of intercultural theatre practice. Existing scholarship on interculturalism in theatre praxis regards intercultural theatre as a site for bridging ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a study of Theatre for Development (TfD) in Kenya. It is an attempt to map out
and describe different manifestations of the practice which would, in a way, act as a
critical model for practitioners ...

Following the socio-political change in South Africa after the democratic elections of 1994 the relationship between the state and the arts changed markedly. Whereas, under apartheid, the white population groups benefited ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The proliferation of Western actor training methods in the past century had mainly been derived from the groundbreaking research undertaken by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Constantin Stanislavski at ...

The purpose of this study is to examine critically the phenomenon of participatory
video and to situate within this the participatory video project that was initiated as
part of this study in the informal settlement area ...